Restricted government grants remain non-income, while block depreciation applies despite retirement of individual business assets from active use.

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....Government grants earmarked for specified purposes and subject to utilisation restrictions do not constitute the recipient's income; accordingly, an unspent micro-irrigation scheme grant was not taxable. Interest payable on unutilised grant under applicable Government resolutions was treated as an allowable liability. Under the block-of-assets principle, depreciation remains available where business assets form part of a used block, even if individual assets have been retired from active use; simultaneous use of every asset is unnecessary. The related depreciation disallowance was deleted, and the capital-gains issue was treated as academic.....